| Todd Snider – The Very Last Time Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sometimes, it seems like Todd has companion songs. This seems like the spiritual successor to "Carla"--just a devastating song of a guy getting dicked around and heartbroken. This although slightly less clever than "Carla" seems a touch sadder. | |
| Todd Snider – Brenda Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is definitely my favorite song off "Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables." I love the Stones, but I might like this more my favorite one of theirs. I'm sure Todd would disagree, but hey. Part of what sells it doesn't even show up in the lyrics. Those "whoa-oh-whoa-oh-a-oh-oh"s are key. | |
| Todd Snider – Brenda Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is really hard to hear what he's singing in places, and of course there's no lyrics in the liner notes. I've had to use my ear from years of listening to Todd, and I've still had to check other lyrics sites to see what other people made of lines that didn't make sense to me. I think this is pretty close to correct now, after fixing the "Worked while their rivals was resting" line. | |
| Drive-By Truckers – Cartoon Gold Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I gotta admit, I love songs where the percussion mimics appropriate sound effects, like Todd Snider's "Play a Train Song." Even the banjo is wholely necessary is appropriate to that sense here. I admit, I don't 100% know what Cooley's talking about (his song's on Brighter Than Creation's Dark are just at the best at this). That said, I think all three of the metaphor's (or two similes and a metaphors) both relate to falling in love and working, if you think about it. | |
| Todd Snider – Keep Off the Grass Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Todd has a great story about this song you can hear on Tales from Moondawg's Tavern. It goes like this: This is a song I’ve been singing since I was 18. I was living in Texas at the time. Normally, I’d listen to Jerry Jeff, and I’d listen to all these people, but nobody had ever really played me any Bob Dylan. I got this Bob Dylan tape and I started listening to it, and it took me a minute to get it, and then I started laughing. I said, “This is the fuckin’ coolest thing I’ve ever heard.” So, then I got it in my head that I wanted to have a song like “Johnny’s in the basement, mixing up the medicine…” And so I made up this song, and I started playing it around, and everybody liked it, and they seemed to enjoy it, and they’d sing along to it. And then I was at this after-show party with all these musician types. And then I’d play ‘em my song, and one of them goes “That’s just like a Bob Dylan song.” And I’m like, “Yeah! You like it, too?” And he says, “You can’t just you can’t drive around, taking other people’s songs and turn ‘em into your own songs and copy everybody and just do that. You can’t do that.” And I thought, “Okay…” And I put the song away for a few, like eight years I put the song away and never played it again. And then I got this record contract and I toured around with a billion other bands for a few years, and I found out you know, yeah, you CAN just copy other people. |
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| Todd Snider – Keep Off the Grass Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I went back and tried to do the best that I could. It doesn't help that on the "Happy to Be Here" version Todd doesn't sing the chorus the same way each time. I like your point with the marijuana entendre, which I'm sure he would agree with, although I'm not sure he intentionally built into the song. | |
| Hayes Carll – She Left Me for Jesus Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| billy "or ted" | |
| David Wilcox – Rudolph Rap Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't know if it looks this way for everybody, but all those boxes are supposed to be apostrophes, obviously. | |
| Todd Snider – Iron Mike's Main Man's Last Request Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I hate to burst your bubble, but several times (including the liner notes to ENS) Todd shows his support for Tyson. This is a song about how weasels like the narrator sweet-talk and grift guys like Tyson. | |
| Grateful Dead – Uncle John's Band Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Jerry Garcia actually recruited a poet friend of his, Robert Hunter, to help him write this song. Generally, I think it makes an allusion to a lot of things, so like a lot of poems, this isn't just about one thing. | |
| David Wilcox – Rusty Old American Dream Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is the theme song for my 1992 Chevrolet Camaro. Maybe it's not as in bad condition as the R.O.A.D. described in this song, but it's pretty darn close. | |
| David Wilcox – Dangerous Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song makes me smile every time I hear it because it reminds the listener that guys can be romantics, too. | |
| David Wilcox – Big Mistake Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I once heard that this song is more of an argument, an appeal, for "intelligent design" than any hour-long lecture on creationism than one could ever make. I think that's true. | |
| David Wilcox – Burgundy Heart-Shaped Medallion Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Besides the enchanting verse, the jewel in this song is Dave's "Minuet in G" at the end. | |
| David Wilcox – Saturday They'll All Be Back Again Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The lyrics are are like poetry - honey - and yet the still don't do the whole song justice. This is one of my favorite songs because it reminds me of climbing into my Camaro and aching for somebody else to come and help me take away my loneliness. I like to think the angels - and God - hears that passion. | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Did anyone see this used in the Tommy Hilfinger commercial? Just the "Some folks are born to wave the flag/Ooh the red, white, and blue" line? Didn't that just make you sick? | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Mfrade, John Fogerty is from Louisiana. | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love Creedence, but that's bullshit. I doesn't get better than Marvin. | |
| Robert Earl Keen, Jr. – I'm Comin' Home Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This reminds me of every time I come home from college. The Gringo Honeymoon version is good...the Live No.2 is classic. | |
| Bob Dylan – Oxford Town Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| But specifically about the integration of the University of Mississippi and James Meredith. | |
| The Wonders – That Thing You Do! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The O-needers! No, the Wonders! No...the Fountains of Wayne? | |
| Robert Earl Keen, Jr. – Merry Christmas From The Family Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't have relatives this bad, but this can remind me of our family Christmas. | |
| John Mellencamp – Pink Houses Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ronald Reagan asked to use this as a campaign song in '84...Mellencamp said no one in hell. I think Reagan should have read the verses. |
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| John Mellencamp – Wild Night Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Van Morrison did write this...there is no "s" at the end of the title. | |
| Barenaked Ladies – Light Up My Room Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ed was once watching a television report about this place was about a place that was so charged with electricity that the reporter "put a spare bulb in her hand and lit up the yard." He thought, "who the heck would live there?" until he realized HE lived there. I think the song is about how no matter how crappy your home is, you love it because it's a part of you. |
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| Todd Snider – Ballad of the Kingsmen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think he's saying music is overrated, it's just that music doesn't make people crazy. Rational people don't just go out and do something just because they hear it in a song. That's why the ending is so brilliant. | |
| Better Than Ezra – Under You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is one of my favorites. How great is a song when it makes Ramen Noodles sound romantic? | |
| Jimmy Buffett – Ballad Of Spider John Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song was written by Willis Alan Ramsay, and an abridged cover at that. I don't care. Jimmy makes it awesome. | |
| Jimmy Buffett – Women Goin' Crazy On Caroline Street Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I heard in Key West the "woman" going crazy on Caroline Street was actually a well-known transexual. That blew my mind. | |
| Jimmy Buffett – In The Shelter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is the original version off "High Cumberland Jubilee." In the "Changes" version, it says "not knowing what she will do next," which is a much more optimistic version. When Jimmy recorded the song AGAIN for "Meet Me In Margaritaville," he kept her not knowing. I quote the "nothing is going well, if you could only tell them how you feel, but they're too real to understand" all the time to myself on bad days. |
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| Jimmy Buffett – A Pirate Looks at Forty Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song isn't about Captain Tony, but rather a guy named Phil Clarke, a bartender at the infamous "Chart Room" bar in Key West who was also mentioned in "Nautical Wheelers." | |
| Jimmy Buffett – Stars On The Water Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The song was written by Johnny Cashn's ex-son-in-law, Rodney Crowell. Jimmy says he wishes he wrote it, because it was a great song and describes the little Gulf honky-tonks perfectly. | |
| Jimmy Buffett – Tin Cup Chalice Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually, it is "Packard." J.B. describes in his book "A Pirate Looks at Fifty" about his infamous first trip to Key West with Jerry Jeff Walker and his old Packard, "The Flying Lady." | |
| Jimmy Buffett – Why Don't We Get Drunk Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Jimmy said he watched a businessman trying to pick up a hooker and it just came to him. He said he already people like Conway Twitty already doing so pretty racy stuff, like "Let's Go All the Way." I think he just wanted to cut the BS. | |
| Jimmy Buffett – The Good Fight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| In the original liner notes, Jimmy dedicated this to Muhammad Ali. Take that as you will. | |
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